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a preconceived idea about gender, race, age, sexual orientation, nationality, socio- economic status, religion, cultural practice and other personal traits, based not on fact or experience but on personal opinion. It often shows bias, stereotyping and leads to discrimination of a person or group of people, e.g. There will be no thieving Indian allowed in this house!
verse that does not have any set form or rhyme scheme. Often even the rhythm (meter) is...
(also spelt fount) the size and style of characters used in printing.
a class of letters or speech sounds (a, e, i, o, u) that are produced in the mouth in such a way...
words that are spelt the same but have different meanings, e.g. We climbed up the river bank to...
a line of poetry with a pause at the end, sometimes signalled by a punctuation mark, e.g. The...